Thursday, September 22, 2011

The body consists of three parts - the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five - a, e, i, o and u.

Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.

Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

Liter: A nest of young puppies.

Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.

There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.

The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.

The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes.

A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

We do not raise silk worms in the United States, because we get our silk from rayon. He is a larger worm and gives more silk.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

At the International Genetics Meeting.An American reports:"We crossed chickens with cows. The new breed simultaneously produces milk, meat and eggs."A Frenchman reports:
"We succeeded in cross-breeding flies and bees. The hybrid flies over the trash fields and produces honey."

A Russian reports:
"And we crossed a melon with cockroaches. When you cut this melon, seeds run away by themselves."

October 4th (OCT4) = Oct4 day.

Why? Because Oct4 just deserves to have a day dedicated to it. Its just awesome that this gene has three alternative transcripts that produce four protein isoforms and six known pseudogenes. Some of the pseudogenes are transcribed and even translated. And no one has any idea what is their function. Beat that.